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ROBERT TOOMBS
ROBERT TOOMBS,AT THE AGE OF 75 YEARS.
ROBERT TOOMBS
STATESMAN, SPEAKER, SOLDIER,
SAGE
HIS CAREER IN CONGRESS AND ON THE HUSTINGS—HIS
WORK IN THE COURTS—HIS RECORD WITH
THE ARMY—HIS LIFE AT HOME
BY
PLEASANT A. STOVALL
"The blood which mingled at Cowpens and at Eutaw cannot be kept atenmity forever."—Toombs.
NEW YORK
CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY
104 & 106 Fourth Avenue
Copyright, 1892,
BY
CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY.
All rights reserved.
THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS,
RAHWAY, N. J.
Dedication.
TO ROBERT TOOMBS DU BOSE, WHOSE INTEREST AND AID WERE
INVALUABLE, ANDWITHOUT WHOSE COÖPERATION THE
BIOGRAPHY COULD NOT HAVE BEEN PREPARED,
THIS WORK IS DEDICATED BY
THE AUTHOR.
"There are courageous and honest men enough in bothsections to fight. There is no question of courageinvolved. The people of both sections of this Union haveillustrated their courage on too many battlefields to bequestioned. They have shown their fighting qualitiesshoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called uponthem; but that they may never come in contact with eachother in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish ofevery true man and honest patriot."—Robert Toombs, Speechin U. S. Senate, 1856.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| I. | Family, Boyhood, Life at College, | 1 |
| II. | At the Bar, | 13 |
| III. | In the Legislature, | 29 |
| IV. | Elected to Congress, | 43 |
| V. | In the Lower House, | 56 |
| VI. | The Compromise of 1850, | 67 |
| VII. | The Georgia Platform, | 83 |
| VIII. | The Camp ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |